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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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